Fallout: New Vegas will use Steam for DRM

[Airbot]

A few weeks back Bethesda and Obsidian started taking questions for the next Fallout title. A staff member on Bethesda's forum posted answers to a dozen of those questions yesterday, revealing that Fallout: New Vegas will rely on Steam for DRM. After looking at other options, the developers decided that Steam is the "best, least intrusive experience for PC gamers." The use of Valve's platform is great news, considering the recent string of less-than-cherished always-connected mechanisms from folks like Ubisoft.

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[smsff7]

That is good to know. I have no problem with steam..although I thought New Vegas was going to be DLC for Fallout 3

 

[Airbot]

New Vegas is the next game in the series of Fallout. Separate game unto itself.

 

[smsff7]

New Vegas is the next game in the series of Fallout. Separate game unto itself.

Well I am looking forward to seeing what they do with the series with New Vegas

 

[sygnus21]

DRM or no DRM I'm getting it upon release - Amazon.com: Fallout: New Vegas Collector's Edition: Pc: Video Games

 

[smarteyeball]

I'll be getting it too - not too happy about steam though.

As a Steam 'noob' (only used it properly for the first time the other day to to re-deem free game) - can't say I'm an immediate fan

 

[sygnus21]

Well I've had STEAM since they introduced it with Half-Life's Orange Box. Though I have it I much prefer to have the physical media.

The one thing that I like about STEAM is the fact that your games are centralized in one place and ready for redownload once you reinstall the STEAM app. You can also just install the STEAM app and not have the games redownload, provided you didn't wipe the main STEAM directory. Makes thing nice and easy without having to reinstall all the games.

BTW didn't know this was a STEAM product???

 

[adt]

Like sygnus21 I've been using Steam since they introduced the Orange Box and I think it is a really good service. I really like the fact that it patches your games for you etc so you won't have to bother downloading them yourself.
As a fallout 3 fan I will be definitely getting this

 

[Richardc269]

Is there a way to take their survey without installing STEAM?

 

[Everlong]

I don't mind at all using Steam. It's pre-orderable now on Steam for £24.99, and Fallout 3 has been half price this weekend as well with all DLC for £15, which is a good deal

 

[sygnus21]

Is there a way to take their survey without installing STEAM?

Not sure. A lot of the info is scanned from from your system (you can decline the scan). You could could always visit the site and see if you can manually do it, but I doubt it.

With regards to downloadable releases, I'll always get the physical versions. I don't like downloading my games unless absolutely necessary. FEAR 2 for example was a game that even though you bought the physical edition, it STIL had to be downloaded from STEAM. Wasn’t thrilled with that one but oh well.

BTW another "benefit" of steam is that you can actually "activate" a non-steam purchased game, example Prey, with steam. All you have to do is have a valid product ID number that follows steam's protocols, register it, and the game is now a steam version. That’s a nice feature.



I thought about doing this with Bioshock 1, but there were all sorts of reported issues with steam's version at the time.

 

[smsff7]

Is there a way to take their survey without installing STEAM?

Not sure. A lot of the info is scanned from from your system (you can decline the scan). You could could always visit the site and see if you can manually do it, but I doubt it.

With regards to downloadable releases, I'll always get the physical versions. I don't like downloading my games unless absolutely necessary. FEAR 2 for example was a game that even though you bought the physical edition, it STIL had to be downloaded from STEAM. Wasn’t thrilled with that one but oh well.

BTW another "benefit" of steam is that you can actually "activate" a non-steam purchased game, example Prey, with steam. All you have to do is have a valid product ID number that follows steam's protocols, register it, and the game is now a steam version. That’s a nice feature.

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I thought about doing this with Bioshock 1, but there were all sorts of reported issues with steam's version at the time.

not all ver of Bioshock work with it I would have done that myself if I could have

 

[sygnus21]

OK. But I do know you can activate games, that's my point.

 

[MarcusCardiff]

So what's the implication for modding?
Can you mod steam games?

I have nearly 200 mods on both Oblivion and Fallout 3 so I would hate the idea of not being able to mod New Vegas.

I never use steam as I get ripped off, you can always get games cheaper from places like the hut and play.com

I certainly won't be paying over the odds for a crippled game if I can't mod it.

As for the convenience of steam, I can install Fallout 3 in 5 minutes, it would take over an hour to download with a 10Mb connection, Hardly convenient.

 

[Airbot]

Fallout: New Vegas arriving October 19 in the U.S.

 

[sygnus21]

Sounds better than Amazon's Pre-Order November release date - Amazon.com: Fallout: New Vegas Collector's Edition: Pc: Video Games